Even if the govt. were to purloin all the available jobs in current industry and hand it over to their pet vote banks and have them magically work at the same efficiency as before, it would still be a drop in the ocean when compared to the kind of employment creation that is necessary.
The Chinese are accomplishing this by developing massive employment opportunities at the widget making level and it's taken them more than two decades of infrastructure investment to reap the fruits of their labor. India has to do something similar but Kamal Nath is too shameless to acknowldge it.
One more thing. Kamal Nath wants to fight Lakshmi Mittal's battle with the Europeans for him but wants to take a stick to our home-grown industrialists. Just that shows his intellectually bankrupt he is.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 09:50 )
dr G.Srinivasan
The interview was alright but the performance of Kamalnath was below that of Mr.Mittal .He did not answer the questions put to him propelry .For example the statistics of NSSO which his own ministry brought out. Again I am sorry to say that when everybody is shedding crocodile tears for the SC/, OBCs -- owefully the STs are left out because they have no voice they are our girijans as opposed to harijans.Again the poor among the forward and who are meritorious did not get mention.Obviously neither KaranThapar nor Kamalnath nor the constitution is batting foe them . The whole agitation is because the economic backwardness should be the criteria and not social backwardness.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 09:32 )
Hemant rana
Following is so lamest response by Kamal Nath. The facts and figures seem to be there in front of him and yet he denies. He tells Karan that he did not recieve information from industry. Now what is he doing? He is responsible for getting all the information that is required for his objective and he is sitting and waiting for information to come. God bless India!!!
Karan Thapar: Yes these NSSO figures are nationwide.
Kamal Nath:Your figures are inaccurate.
Karan Thapar: They are not my figures, they are your figures.
Kamal Nath:That’s what you are saying.
Karan Thapar: They are the national sample survey figures 1999. They are available from the government. They are authenticated by the government. They are disseminated by the government.
Kamal Nath:That's what you are saying.
Karan Thapar: That's not what I am saying, that's what the government is saying.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 07:45 )
Balasubramanian
Firstly, in response to Mr. Kamalnath's question "Is the government off its head?" - Judging by what Mr. Kamalnath has said in this interview, I should say YES! YES! YES!!! Secondly, Trying to force a private sector firm to accept reservations through "law" is a violation of the RIGHT TO LIVE of the owner. This RIGHT TO LIFE is absolute and does not come with any obligations. No law passed by parliament can take this right away. Industry is something an individual chooses to run to sustain his life in a manner of his choosing. Who he employs depends on who he finds most capable of meeting his requirements. To force him to employ according to some arbitrary caste calculations made by a politician is tantamount to asking the industrialist to commit suicide for the sake of the "social good". To call this "legal" by passing a law in parliament is legalising murder. This "sacrifice people for the common good" principle has been the curse of this country since independence and needs to be consigned to the dustbin at the earliest. Reservation in the private sector is just the story of an incompetent sponge of a politician sacrificing productive individuals for his vote-bank politics.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 05:37 )
SACHIT
THE CONGRESS IS JUST PLAYING VOTE BANK POLITICS , KARAN THAPAR HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB OF EXPOSING THE CONGRESS PRESENT STANCE , THEY WANT TO ENFORCE QUOTAS NO MATTER WAT , EVEN IF THERE R BETTER ALTERNATIVES .. EVEN THE GREAT LATE PANDIT NEHRU WOULD BE LOOKING ON HIS PARTY AND FEELING ASHAMED AT WAT THEY R DOING .
HE RAISED ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SAM PITRODIA I ASK KAMAL GOOD FOR NOTHING NATH - ISN'T AWARE OF THE GOVERNMENT FIGURES HIMSELF WAT A USELESS OBC COMMERCRE MINISTER WHO DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE IN THE CABINET CLAIMS HE IS ABOVE THE PM I WISH U LIVE ONLY IN OUR MEMORIES
ONLY THE PM CAN GUIDE THE COUNTRY NOM ,
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 04:58 )
GAUTAM BAGCHI
no wonder the foreign media called him a joker! he is a prime example of the "movie" ministers---!
if we take our state capitals & offices to those 50 odd villages -more employment will be generated without sacrificing those tax incentives!the ministers can also be close to the deprived lot and see the devlopement! in the age of IT the ministers shouldnt have any trouble working from those places!
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 03:34 )
Raj Vaghela
Over a period I read the comments from various contributors on this subject and seems to me that there is some degree of link to politics, move away from reservation & affirmative action, operative word must always be merit at all levels.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 03:15 )
Kumar
The anti-reservation protestors seem so ignorant of not just social realities, but also political realities. There can be no doubt that some politics is involved. That is why even the BJP does not oppose it openly. BJP came to prominence due to their OBC leaders like Uma Bharati, Vinay Katiyar, Narendra Modi, Kalyan singh etc. Similarly, if the congress had not been strategically accommodating the SC/ST/OBC leaders, they would have been destroyed long time back. If the likes of Laloo, Mulayam, Paswan, Mayawati, Karunandhi, Siddaramaiah, Nitish Kumar, Chaggan Bhujbal, Sharad Yadav etc submerge their differences and come up with a power sharing plan and join hands they will win an absolute majority. If that happens, Congress will be no where and BJP will be decimated. What Congress is saying is that it is better to let Congress do it, rather than let the SC/ST/OBC leaders get together and destroy the congress. If the congress does not do it, someone else surely will.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 01:36 )
Rohit
The Indian economy & business has grown exponetially over the last decade INSPITE of the Govt & not bcos of it.The minister fails to realise that world over businesses hv prospered when the least control or diktat is imposed on them.By rabble rousing abt cement prices & statutory reservations he seems to be caught in a time warp of the 60s & 70s.The FM 'requests'banks to refrain frm hiking int rates,Maran forces tariff changes when that job is monitored by the regulator & HRD min.talks of reservations instead of spreading education far & wide.At this rate are heading twds the 70s or the 2020s.And our sardar PM is ever so invisible that we may soon forget we r ruled by a PM called M.Singh.Our Hon President had unveiled Vision 2020.Wonder what he's got to say re the theatre of the absurd playing out in the corridors of power.
( Posted: Monday , May 15, 2006 at 01:13 )
Rakesh Sood
Private industry should join the doctors who are putting up such a brave fight against political opportunism. The demand should be for the debate to be widened beyond government mandated reservations. The politicians should be taken to task on where the funds earmarked for education are going (including the 2% education cess). LET THEM GIVE FULL ACCOUNTABILITY including how many college capable and employable students that government schools graduate annually. Only then should private industry consider what it needs to do to implement "social justice".
Despite horrible infrastructure (so essential for a healthy industry) and political indifference to their just demands, a company like Infosys has provided 40000+ direct jobs, lakhs of indirect jobs & generated thousands of crores of wealth that can be shared by anyone who buys their shares. Just the IITian founders of Infosys have thus repaid the country many times over for the creation of the entire IIT system.
Mr Kamal Nath, give me one such statistic on what good the government has done with the taxes it has collected ostensibly for educating the SC/ST/OBCs?
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